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For the second straight year, a Lafayette student has been selected as a state finalist for a Rhodes Scholarship.
Hart Feuer ’05, of Portland, Ore., a double major in economics & business and German, was selected as a finalist in his home state. Last year Meghan Ramsey ’04 was a Minnesota Rhodes finalist.
Feuer is a two-time recipient of the Morris K. Udall Scholarship and last spring was one of just five students in the nation named a Junior Fellow of the Center for Khmer Studies. In the summer he spent three months conducting research in Siem Reap-Angkor, Cambodia, funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. He also was one of two Lafayette finalists in the 2004 Harry S. Truman Scholarship competition.
Scheduled to finish his Lafayette studies in December, Feuer is completing a two-semester senior honors project that he began in Cambodia. He is analyzing the social capital, market interaction, and income-generation capability of two semi-rural Cambodian villages. His adviser is David Stifel, assistant professor of economics and business.
Feuer’s career goal is to obtain a doctorate in development economics and become an economic adviser to developing nations, in order to bring about environmentally sustainable economic growth.
He has served as president of Lafayette Environmental Awareness and Protection, or LEAP, a student organization that promotes environmental responsibility on campus and abroad, and is a participant in Lafayette’s McKelvy House Scholars Program, in which 16-19 students of exceptional intellectual promise and thirst reside together in a historic off-campus house and share in intellectual and social activities. He also is treasurer of Hillel Society and a member of German Club and Investment Club.
“Hart has distinguished himself academically, politically, and socially,” says Owen McLeod, associate professor of philosophy and former resident faculty adviser of McKelvy House. “Under his leadership LEAP has become one of the most visible and effective student groups on campus. He’s destined, I’m sure, to be a powerful force for moral, political, and environmental good in the world.”
Feuer says, “The outstanding actions of individual members within the faculty is what sets Lafayette apart. Faculty who can recognize students who want to do more in and out of the class, allow a trusting and personal relationship to develop between them, and encourage the student through personal involvement and sacrifice boost the success of the school and reap more personal satisfaction from their work.”
Ramsey, who is now attending Stanford Medical School, graduated summa cum laude with a B.S in neuroscience and honors in chemistry and was awarded an NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship. An all-Patriot League soccer player, she was a two-time recipient of the Eastern College Athletic Conference’s Division I Robbins Award as the ECAC’s top scholar-athlete.
Thirty-two American Rhodes Scholars are elected annually for two years of study at the University of Oxford, with the possibility of renewal for a third year. All educational costs are paid, as are costs of travel to and from Oxford, and scholars receive an allowance for other expenses. Scholars may also apply for additional grants for research purposes or study-related travel.
Jack Kent Cooke Graduate Scholarship. Hart Feuer ’05 (left) completed senior honors research on two Cambodian villages with the guidance of David Stifel, assistant professor of economics and business.